--- Title: The important part of the US election night is already over Date: 04/11/2020 Category: USA Tags: elections URL: https://marxismo.school/communia/en/the-important-part-of-the-us-election-night-is-already-over --- As the night moves on in the U.S. and with it [the vote count](https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results), it becomes clear that the final results are going to be [contested and disputed](https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/11/03/trump-biden-election-live-updates/) and that they will possibly not be consolidated into the official victory of one of the candidates until a few days from now. What matters in the current situation is not so much the detail and the trickle of partial results in the race but what the situation itself shows us about the leading world power. ## Questions in the air **_Katrina again and again_**. Outside the United States, for two generations raised in the Cold War and impressed by the war displays of the two Gulf Wars, the [impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina) was surprising. The absence of basic infrastructure, the massive poverty that became visible, the desperation and the _every man for himself_ of looting in the middle of an emergency situation, the lack of means of a military force which overwhelmed entire countries but which, in its backyard, did not even have pumps to bail out water... And that was just the beginning. The media in Europe and Latin America took for granted a rapid reconstruction presented in all its glory. It never came. It was the _Katrina moment_, the first realization that the state of the world's greatest imperialist power was far from being that powerful and efficient machine of the pandemic movies. And in fact the current pandemic made it clear that the U.S. had less than [1/3 of the hospital beds per capita of Japan or Korea and less than half that of Germany](https://data.oecd.org/healtheqt/hospital-beds.htm). However, with [3 times more homeless people per thousand inhabitants than Spain](https://www.oecd.org/els/family/HC3-1-Homeless-population.pdf) and [a rate of prison population seven times higher than China](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm). The United States is already on its [third wave of Covid and between one wave and another it has never managed to reach the lowest point of the previous one](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html). state capitalism The question is... How is it possible for the world's leading technological power to lack an uncontroversial and rapid system of electoral counting? How can it be that a state capable of moving half a million soldiers to the other side of the world in three weeks is incapable of ensuring that the votes sent by mail will arrive on time at the polling stations? How can it be that in the middle of election night [judges needed to order the intervention of entire postal districts to find lost votes](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/02/us/trump-vs-biden?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-elections-2020®ion=TOP_BANNER&context=storyline_menu_recirc#a-judge-ordered-an-immediate-sweep-of-12-postal-districts-to-look-for-undelivered-ballots). [![](https://marxismo.school/communia/en/assets/encuestas.png)](https://marxismo.school/communia/en/assets/encuestas.png) _[Error 500 keeps happening again and again](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/500)_. The USA is the Mecca of information technologies, _big data_ and Artificial Intelligence development. They tell us that the predictive capacity of the new process technologies is such that we should fear a supposed _singularity_ which would allow to replace massively all kind of workers by software and robots... The famous predictive and [poll-based models](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/) used by the major American media, [gave Trump no more than a 10% chance](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/). A supposedly easy ride for Biden which, regardless of the outcome that is finally confirmed, is very far away from the outcome of the ballot box. In the end, [gambling houses seem to have reflected much better](https://www.oddschecker.com/insight/politics/20201103-2020-us-election-odds-bookmakers-slash-trumps-odds-on-election-day) the way opinion was developing. democracy ## Why have there been so many bitterness and signs of violence around these elections? [![](https://marxismo.school/communia/en/assets/covid-eeuu.png)](https://marxismo.school/communia/en/assets/covid-eeuu.png) petty bourgeoisie petty bourgeoisie > > "[What is America Trying to Do?", 12/5/2020](https://marxismo.school/communia/en/what-is-america-trying-to-do) [And it was those good results that, in reality, sustained the new consensus of U.S. capital in the](https://marxismo.school/communia/en/what-is-america-trying-to-do) [second half of the Trump](https://marxismo.school/communia/es/las-elecciones-de-mitad-de-legislatura-en-eeuu-y-que-significan-para-europa) mandate. The protectionist tendencies in the Democratic Party, which were expressed under [the rise of _socialists_ like Ocasio](https://marxismo.school/communia/es/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-y-el-socialismo-en-america) and [Sanders](https://marxismo.school/communia/es/que-cambiaria-con-el-socialismo-de-bernie-sanders) integrated a new generation of leaders blessed by the apparatus - like Kamala Harris. The proof that the rupture within the US bourgeoisie has been overcome is that today even [Germany is preparing for a worsening of the pressures and the trade war with the US](https://www.dw.com/es/sanciones-de-ee-uu-se-prepara-europa-para-una-guerra-econ%C3%B3mica/a-55475921). No one expects real change from Biden and [imperialist tensions are not going to diminish](https://marxismo.school/communia/en/us-elections-and-their-global-impact) feminism|feminist In other words, **identity politics has served the US bourgeoisie to release tensions by mobilizing votes in this campaign... without addressing any of the real divisions and fractures in US society**. Fractures that, as in the whole world, are class fractures, not _identity-based ones_, neither sexual nor racial... although the sharp racism permeating the American national identity from its origin tends to _racialize_ social class; and the interests of the black petty bourgeoisie, the unions and big business converge in fracturing workers into racial subgroups. democracy